28 June 2006

The number of adresses already unavailable on an email service is kind of an indicator of how many people already use it. Since I tried a lot of times to open a new GMail account (each time repeating my password and humanity-check), I want to share all the choices I tried which were already taken. Here we go (all at googlemail.com which I omit so those poor guys don't get spammend any more than they are already):beautifulbobwillitheowlxiaohubonifacius(At this point I noticed the "check availability" button which spared me reentering the password and such. But let's continue.)rudolfbobbierobbiehermannheinrichspeedbobflyingbob(And at this point, I finally found my new googlemail address. I won't make it public to see whether that has an influence over the amount of spam I am receiving. So you can try guessing my address! Just write a mail to it, if you are right, I'll congratulate your intelligence, ha, ha...)

Ones I tried, were available, but I didn't want:quarkbroetchenchainrider

The only trick is to write BUECHERSENDUNG above the address and to use an "open packaging" which means: it can be opened and closed without damage. Here's how to make that:http://frederick41.de/buchverp.html

Fortunately, there's the fine German invention of Musterklammer! (Well, probably other countries have that too, but the word is so special, it's not in the dictionary.)

Now, it's even more comfortable to reuse my Amazon packagings and the people buying books from me get a reusable packaging for free. (I only need to buy a box of Musterklammers, hehe.)